Timothy M. Komarek

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the economic, social, and environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in oil and gas extraction and found no effect of fracking on income or employment in the Marcellus region.

TL;DR: This article examined the impact of the energy boom on the labor market by exploiting a natural experiment in the Marcellus region and found that total employment and wages per job increase by 7% and 11% respectively above pre-boom levels in the three years after the boom but decline after 4 years or more.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit a natural experiment in the Marcellus region to examine one channel of the so-called resource curse, the effect of resource extraction on local crime and find that areas experiencing a natural gas extraction boom suffer an increase in overall violent crimes, while property crimes remain similar to non-boom areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the preferences of stakeholders within a large academic institution for attributes of alternative greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategies, including the fuel portfolio mix, effort for conserving energy use, carbon emissions reduction, timeframe for emissions reduction to be achieved and cost.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of light rail transit on the residential real estate market in Hampton Roads, Virginia is examined using a difference-in-differences model and several outcome variables for the residential housing market, including sale price, sale-list price spread and the time-on-market.